The white walls of the Chinatown studio were covered with dozens and dozens of Polaroid-style instant photos, each one featuring a celebrity (or something akin to a celebrity) staring back into the camera. Below each stark image was an autograph from the featured luminary. It was quite a collection. One might even call Rick DeMint’s “Portroids” (short for “Polaroid Portraits”) solo exhibit an “impossible” collection, though that might be too much on point.
DeMint has been accosting and photographing celebrities for a decade (and doing so since around 2008 with a Polaroid Spectra camera). For him, it’s not a profession; he just likes photography and celebrities and is so non-threatening that a shocking number of stars (among them: Zach Galifianakis, Katy Perry, Questlove, Elijah Woods and Joan Rivers) have stood still — even in the midst of some very busy activity — for him and then autographed their picture. Read more…
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